squirm

Once it gets going, “Oak Street” makes the audience squirm, scream and laugh for nearly an hour, and I had a great time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Instead, each of the three attempted to squirm out of a simple yes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

It would be easy to take Emma’s confession as a simple cinematic provocation, a tone-deaf narrative device intended to make viewers squirm in their seats.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026

Eight years later, he’s back in office, and giving soccer fans eager to watch the tournament this summer good reasons to squirm.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026

I let him squirm for longer than necessary before I took the card.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

A new study from two University of Chicago scientists has revealed how HIV squirms its way into the nucleus as it invades a cell.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024

The foot taps, the squirms in your seat, the arms thrown into the air with a mind of their own.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2023

Somehow he squirms his way to the safest harbor while everyone else scrambles.

From Salon ● May 15, 2023

Claireth Mendoza's six-year-old son Drake squirms in his mother's lap.

From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2022

I hold him, but Ford flops and squirms and pushes, bucking like a bronco, trying to get away from me.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

With each stride, I squirmed deeper into the Florsheims’ tapered toes in a vain effort to spare my chafing heels.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

I squirmed, then froze in my chair, trying to conceal my cringe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Marc Vanwalkenburgh, 63, sat next to his mother, Catherine, 92, who squirmed uncomfortably on a medical bed in the middle of the convention center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025

At times, she squirmed, and seemed to tie herself in knots.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024

To make things worse, he squirmed his rear end around until his tail was hanging over the back of the spring seat.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Paramount Skydance isn’t putting up too much of its own cash, but holy God is it adding a lot to the $14 billion in debt already squirming on its balance sheet.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026

The conditions were near farcical, the ball frequently squirming through fingers and set-pieces a mess, with Scotland making the lion's share of blunders.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

“I’ve had a pit in my stomach all day,” said his father, Craig Kupp, with an irrepressible smile on his face and a squirming grandson tucked under his arm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

It’s a thriller that turns the screws so unnoticeably you begin squirming before you notice how efficiently the play has gotten, well, under your skin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

“Well, what a great thing this is!” he said, dragging a squirming Zheng away with one hand, the box tucked under the other arm.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook